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Show Heahh Conditions In The State oi Uiah Improving According to a report from the State laboratory the dog which bit its owner, J. J. Smith, of Bluffdale, was infected with rabies. ra-bies. The animal bit Mr. Smith on July 12 and died on July 15. This is the first positive dog's head to be brought into the laboratory labo-ratory for about 10 days and indicates indi-cates the necessity of maintaining maintain-ing a rigid quarantine of all dogs. As long as dog owners permit their animals to run loose the disease will contiriue to spread and the quarantine will have to be kept in effect indefinitely. indefi-nitely. Communicable disease reports to the State Department of Helath from local health olncers tor the week ending July 14, indicate that the people of the state of Utah are enjoying excellent health. A total of 247 cases of communicable com-municable diseases was reported as compared with 256 for the previous pre-vious week. One case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever was reported from Fillmore. The patient is an adult male and was infected while herding sheep. Millard and San Juan counties each reported one case of tularemia. tula-remia. According to the attending attend-ing physician, one of the patients was infected through the bite of a coyote cub. The animal had ; apparently eaten an infected rab-1 bit. Only 10 cases of tularemia j have been reported to the State; Department of Health during the year 1944. For the corresponding ! period in 1943, a total of 15 cases! of this disease had been reported. It is encouraging to note that no cases of infantile paralysis were reported for the week. According Ac-cording to the reports of the U. S. Public Health Service, a number num-ber of states in the South are experiencing ex-periencing rather severe epidemics epidem-ics of this disease. Since the first of the year, 6 cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in Utah as ompared with 19 for the corresponding period in 1943. ! The totals for the week were as follows: checkenpox, 39; in-flunza, in-flunza, 1; measles, 21; German measles, 4; mumps, 39; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 1; Rocky Mountain spot ted fever, 1; scarlet fever, 7; tularemia, tula-remia, 2; whooping cough, 60; gonorrhea, 35; syphilis, 33, and rheumatic fever, 3. Sanpete county reported only one case of tularemia. |